A great way to introduce children to classical music.
America's first Children's Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of the Animals, " and the illustrator of the Harry Potter books has turned these rollicking rhymes into a picture-book fun fest. Included is a CD of the music and of Jack Prelutsky reading the verses. A note to parents and teachers by Judith Bachleitner, head of the music department at the prestigious Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, suggests ways preschoolers can act out the music--tromp like an elephant, hop like a kangaroo, glide like a swan--or, for older children, be creatively inspired by this joyful work.

A series of essays on reactions and emotional responses to music.

A series of essays on reactions and emotional responses to music.

Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.

Coverage of the 2015 Midsummer Night's Gala in Grafenegg. The concert, which features violinist Julia Fischer, mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman and tenor Piotr Beczala, includes works by, among others, Bizet, Massenet, Saint-Saëns and Verdi. Yutaka Sado conducts the Tonkünstler-Orchester.

Tomás Netopil conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp in this performance recorded in 2009. Performers include Torsten Kerl, Marianna Tarasova, Nikola Mijailovic and Gijs Van der Linden.

Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman performs pieces by Prokofiev, Edward Elgar, and Camille Saint-Saëns in a pair of classic performances filmed in London.

Collection of ballets making up the Gala des Étoiles of 2015. David Coleman conducts the Teatro alla Scala in performances of, amongst others, 'La Rose Malade' by Gustav Mahler, 'The Dying Swan' by Camille Saint-Saëns and Aram Khatchaturian's 'Spartacus'.

A seven-volume set featuring anniversary concerts and live performances by, amongst others, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman and Arthur B. Rubenstein. Also included is director Janos Darvas's 2011 documentary profile of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 'Coming Home'.

This single-volume edition of hard-to-find arrangements of famous classical pieces offers terrific value to intermediate and advanced pianists. Designed to offer musicians a chance to play familiar masterworks, the selections encompass transcriptions by famous pianists, some of whom are remembered today solely for these arrangements.
Contents include "Ride of the Valkyries" and other works by Wagner, three versions of Brahms's "Lullaby," "Chanson Boheme" from Bizet's "Carmen, " Beethoven's "Turkish March," "Waltz of the Flowers" from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker, " and pieces by Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Strauss, and others.

This is a wonderful collection of popular and some less well-known pieces. It contains three movements from The Carnival of the Animals, the slow movement and the famous Maestoso section from the 'Organ' Symphony (No. 3), the meltingly beautiful aria 'Softly awakes my heart' from the opera Samson and Delilah, the opening section of the Danse Macabre, and several other pieces illustrating the range of Saint-Saens' compositional style. All the pieces are immensely playable and have been chosen to suit the needs of both church and concert organists.